#power

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both. ↗

— Fawn M. Brodie

#both #combination #either #friendship #insatiable

It worries me a little bit the reach and power of TV. More people saw me in 'The Practice' than will ever see me in all the stage plays I ever do. Which is sort of humbling. Or troubling. Or both. ↗

— Michael Emerson

#both #ever #humbling #i #little

Since 2000, we've seen base power rates rise by 50%. ↗

— Greg Walden

#power #rates #rise #seen #since

I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, had you said it was going to happen no one would have believed you. The system seemed powerful and unbreakable. Suddenly overnight it blew away like dust. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#away #before #believed #berlin #berlin wall

Soul and mind are the powers of mankind ↗

— Akinwale Musa Oluseun

#mind #power #soul #inspirational

Awareness is empowering. ↗

— Rita Wilson

#empowering

The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority. Any lessening of civil power over military power must inevitably lead away from democracy. ↗

— Harold Russell

#any #authority #away #civil #constitutional

You look at the pillars of the state: politics, the media, police, lawyers - they've all got their formal role, and then nestling above that is that power elite who are networked in through soft, social links, that are actually running the show. Why didn't I know that 10 years ago, and why didn't I rail against it? Why did I become part of it? ↗

— Tom A. Watson

#actually #against #ago #become #did

It is very frightening to feel alone when you are standing against a rich and powerful person and all his attendant helpers. ↗

— Gloria Allred

#alone #attendant #feel #frightening #his

Threats without power are like powder without ball. ↗

— Nathan Bailey

#like #powder #power #threats #without